syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.16 - Release Notes

correlation-context-scope

• process: Only messages that are generated by the same process of a client belong to the same context, that is, messages that have identical ${HOST}, ${PROGRAM} and ${PID} values. This is the default behavior of syslog-ng OSE if context-scope is not specified.

• program: Messages that are generated by the same application of a client belong to the same context, that is, messages that have identical ${HOST} and ${PROGRAM} values.

• host: Every message generated by a client belongs to the same context, only the ${HOST} value of the messages must be identical.

• global: Every message belongs to the same context.